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TUESDAY
JUNE 11, 2002 WEATHER_____________
source: weather.com
TODAY
HIGH 60 • LOW 38 PARTLY CLOUDY
FOR THE WEEK’S FORECAST, SEE PAGE 3
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-IDAHO
STARVING AFRICA RECEIVES FUNDS, WILL NEED MORE
• U.S. AND CHURCH AID FAMINE-STRICKEN AFRICA • PAGE 8
VOLUME 113/ ISSUE 36 • REXBURG, IDAHO 83460
LOCAL KIDNAPPER'S SUICIDE CONFIRMED
• THE KIDNAPPER OF A 14-YEAR-OLD IDAHO FALLS GIRL LED POLICE ON A HIGH-SPEED CAR CHASE BEFORE KILLING HIMSELF AND THE EVIDENCE
• PAGE 2
don't say
a word...
Scroll Photo Illustration by Ashlee Dean
Child abuse at national high in East Idaho
ALLISON KING
MANAGING EDITOR
An epidemic has long been in the small towns of Idaho. Child abuse, be it physical, sexual, emotional or neglect, has been taking its toll on Idaho minors for decades. Department of Justice sta­tistics indicate that Idaho is among those states with the highest number of child abuse incidents.
Since 1998, the list of covered offens­es known to the Idaho Department of Law Enforcement has grown to an unprecedented number of child abuse crimes: 17,010, according to the depart­ment.
Acts such as ritualized abuse of a child, sexual exploitation, lewd conduct with a minor, sexual battery of a child, rape, male rape, forcible sexual penetra­tion using a foreign object, murder com­mitted in perpetration of lewd conduct,
assault and/or battery with the intent to commit rape and incest are among those crimes that have increased in the past years.
“Very seldom does a week go by that we don’t get a call about child sexual abuse,” Capt. Randy Lewis of the Rexburg Police Department said. “The other big problem is child neglect.”
Lewis attributes this to the small-town mentality prevalent particularly in south­east Idaho. A “cycle of abuse” com­mences that cannot be easily combatted.
“My personal opinion is that it’s learned behavior. Parents abuse their children, and then those children abuse their own children. ... Violent crimes are perpetrated in terms of generations. ... People who have been molested turn into molesters,” he said.
Laws forbidding child abuse and neg­lect were passed as recently as the 1970s — a Mandatory Reporting Statute was passed in 1971, and the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act was passed in 1974, among others. Because of this, many people are acting consci­entiously
and reporting more incidents. Prior to the enforcement of these laws, however, Lewis said, many people were relying on ecclesiastical intervention rather than on state or federal guidance.
“People report their misdeeds to cler­gy, bishops, priests or whomever instead of going to the law. Sometimes its bet­ter not to handle it entirely ecclesiasti­cally. There has got to be consequences with the law,” Lewis said.
Lewis is firm in his convictions that perpetrators ought to know of the imme­diate consequences of their actions, something that cannot always be accom­plished through religious confession.
“I don’t want everyone locked up; I just want justice,” he said.
David Duerden, a professor in BYU- Idaho’s family science department, opposes some of the ideals Lewis has set forth and opts instead for a more positive outlook. Contrary to Lewis’ belief that cycles of child abuse are often inevitable, Duerden maintains that “parental abuse is not deterministic for generation to generation.”
“There is a huge incidence of these issues even in the Church. ... These peo­ple will have issues all of their lives; it will affect their relationships. But isn’t it possible that the Savior can remove that pain?” Duerden said.
Parents are often the primary perpetra­tors of child abuse, Lewis said, which makes the children’s issues so much more complex and indelible.
Among rape victims less than 12 years of age, 90 percent of the children knew the offender, according to police-record­ed incident data from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program of the FBI.
“It’s the parents not spending quality time with their kids [that] is a huge fac­tor. These kids come from dysfunctional families ... and they get so discouraged and want to retaliate. So they do it to their own kids,” Lewis said.
“Parenting is hard, but that is no justi­fication,” Duerden said. “These things happen partly because [of] frustration and ... partly because of temper and mental issues.”
New domestic security agency is not a 'Soviet-era7 creation, Bush says
AP Photo Archive
President Bush meets with bipartisan members of Congress on homeland security in the Cabinet Room of the White House Friday in Washington. Seated with Bush are Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, left, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., right
WASHINGTON (AP) — President George W. Bush left the FBI out of his proposed domestic security department in part because he did not want the new Cabinet-level agency to resemble an “old Soviet-era” creation, his chief of staff said Sunday.
Andrew Card said the FBI is primarily involved in law enforcement, which would not be a responsibility of the pro­posed Department of Homeland Security.
“The FBI does more than worry about terrorist attacks,” Card said on ABC-TV. “And besides, we did not want to create a homeland security department that would look like the old Soviet-era ... min­istry of the interior. This is a homeland security department that will secure the homeland.”
Card said the department
would not gather intelligence about potential terrorist attacks but would serve as a clearing­house, analyzing information from the FBI and the CIA.
In announcing his plan last week, Bush said the depart­ment would exclude the largest intelligence operations, includ­ing the FBI, CIA and the National Security Agency.
Card said the government would have had a better chance of putting terrorism intelli­gence together before Sept. 11 had the new agency been in place.
The department would pro­vide another place “where peo­ple can look at the dots to see how they might be connected,” Card said in a separate inter­view on “Fox News Sunday.” He said it would receive intel­ligence from the Coast Guard, the Immigration and
Naturalization Service, Border Patrol and the Drug Enforcement Agency.
Bush has said the new department would not increase the cost of government. Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge, however, said on CBS- TV that it may cost more ini­tially, but not over the long term.
Ridge also disclosed that Bush’s plan was known only to a handful of White House offi­cials before Bush briefed Cabinet members on it last week.
Those unaware of its details until then included Secretary of State Colin Powell, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and retired Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, chairman of the President’s Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board, he said.
Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman said he thinks the new department should be complemented by a counterter­rorism adviser in the White House who would report directly to the president.
Bush has not indicated who would head the new depart­ment. Lieberman said. Congress, hoping to pass legis­lation creating the department by Sept. 11, presumes Ridge would be its secretary.
BYU-Idaho student dies from injuries
SHAUNA EWELL
SCROLL STAFF
Jeremy Kay Bills, an Elementary Education major from Rigby,
Idaho, died June 3 due to injuries from an automobile accident.
Bills was life-flighted to Eastern Idaho Medical Center in Idaho Falls on May 31, Guin Hand, a junior from Bakersfield, Calif., who was Bills’s fiance, said.
His funeral was held Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Milo LDS 1st Ward Chapel, 12127 North 75 East, Idaho Falls.
Hand said Bills and a friend were driving home from the drive-in movie May 31. They decided to go to a friend’s house and watch another movie. After going to the friend’s house, Bills and his friend chose not to watch the movie and left.
The two left Rigby on Highway 20 in separate cars. Bills was alone in his car driv­ing home to Rigby. On his way home, he saw a horse in the road. He swerved to miss the horse, a tire blew out and the car rolled from corner to cor­ner. Bills was ejected from the back window and lay in the middle of the street, Hand said.
A woman heard the crash and came out to the scene. She called 911 and within three minutes, dispatchers came and Bills was life-flighted to EIMRC, Hand said.
Bills suffered from a broken arm, broken shoulder, col­lapsed lungs and half a dozen ribs were broken.
He also had a broken knee, a broken hip and he suffered from brain damage and inter­nal bleeding. In addition, he had a stroke and was taken in for open heart surgery, which he survived, Hand said.
Monday he went in for another surgery because of swelling of the brain.
Bills’ heart stopped during surgery, and he died June 3 around 1:15 a.m., Hand said.
Hand said she believed that Bills would want people to learn from his experience.
“He never stopped living With the things he learned on his mission. The gospel was deep in his heart. I know he would want people to see the example of his life and would pray each person would try to be themselves and be the best they could be,” she said.
She continued, “Have a giv­ing heart and help them become all they can be. Do the best you can do, trying one step at a time for whatever you go through.”
Bills served in the Cincinnati, Ohio mission from 1998 to October of 2000. He came to Ricks College in win­ter semester of 2001.
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INDEX__________________
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT .. 9,10
CAMPUS ..................... 5,6
CLASSIFIEDS ................ 9
COMICS...................... 9
NEWS...................... 2,4
OPINION................... 3
RELIGION................... 7,8

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inside: mmm files for mmmmy 11
TUESDAY
JUNE 11, 2002 WEATHER_____________
source: weather.com
TODAY
HIGH 60 • LOW 38 PARTLY CLOUDY
FOR THE WEEK’S FORECAST, SEE PAGE 3
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-IDAHO
STARVING AFRICA RECEIVES FUNDS, WILL NEED MORE
• U.S. AND CHURCH AID FAMINE-STRICKEN AFRICA • PAGE 8
VOLUME 113/ ISSUE 36 • REXBURG, IDAHO 83460
LOCAL KIDNAPPER'S SUICIDE CONFIRMED
• THE KIDNAPPER OF A 14-YEAR-OLD IDAHO FALLS GIRL LED POLICE ON A HIGH-SPEED CAR CHASE BEFORE KILLING HIMSELF AND THE EVIDENCE
• PAGE 2
don't say
a word...
Scroll Photo Illustration by Ashlee Dean
Child abuse at national high in East Idaho
ALLISON KING
MANAGING EDITOR
An epidemic has long been in the small towns of Idaho. Child abuse, be it physical, sexual, emotional or neglect, has been taking its toll on Idaho minors for decades. Department of Justice sta­tistics indicate that Idaho is among those states with the highest number of child abuse incidents.
Since 1998, the list of covered offens­es known to the Idaho Department of Law Enforcement has grown to an unprecedented number of child abuse crimes: 17,010, according to the depart­ment.
Acts such as ritualized abuse of a child, sexual exploitation, lewd conduct with a minor, sexual battery of a child, rape, male rape, forcible sexual penetra­tion using a foreign object, murder com­mitted in perpetration of lewd conduct,
assault and/or battery with the intent to commit rape and incest are among those crimes that have increased in the past years.
“Very seldom does a week go by that we don’t get a call about child sexual abuse,” Capt. Randy Lewis of the Rexburg Police Department said. “The other big problem is child neglect.”
Lewis attributes this to the small-town mentality prevalent particularly in south­east Idaho. A “cycle of abuse” com­mences that cannot be easily combatted.
“My personal opinion is that it’s learned behavior. Parents abuse their children, and then those children abuse their own children. ... Violent crimes are perpetrated in terms of generations. ... People who have been molested turn into molesters,” he said.
Laws forbidding child abuse and neg­lect were passed as recently as the 1970s — a Mandatory Reporting Statute was passed in 1971, and the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act was passed in 1974, among others. Because of this, many people are acting consci­entiously
and reporting more incidents. Prior to the enforcement of these laws, however, Lewis said, many people were relying on ecclesiastical intervention rather than on state or federal guidance.
“People report their misdeeds to cler­gy, bishops, priests or whomever instead of going to the law. Sometimes its bet­ter not to handle it entirely ecclesiasti­cally. There has got to be consequences with the law,” Lewis said.
Lewis is firm in his convictions that perpetrators ought to know of the imme­diate consequences of their actions, something that cannot always be accom­plished through religious confession.
“I don’t want everyone locked up; I just want justice,” he said.
David Duerden, a professor in BYU- Idaho’s family science department, opposes some of the ideals Lewis has set forth and opts instead for a more positive outlook. Contrary to Lewis’ belief that cycles of child abuse are often inevitable, Duerden maintains that “parental abuse is not deterministic for generation to generation.”
“There is a huge incidence of these issues even in the Church. ... These peo­ple will have issues all of their lives; it will affect their relationships. But isn’t it possible that the Savior can remove that pain?” Duerden said.
Parents are often the primary perpetra­tors of child abuse, Lewis said, which makes the children’s issues so much more complex and indelible.
Among rape victims less than 12 years of age, 90 percent of the children knew the offender, according to police-record­ed incident data from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program of the FBI.
“It’s the parents not spending quality time with their kids [that] is a huge fac­tor. These kids come from dysfunctional families ... and they get so discouraged and want to retaliate. So they do it to their own kids,” Lewis said.
“Parenting is hard, but that is no justi­fication,” Duerden said. “These things happen partly because [of] frustration and ... partly because of temper and mental issues.”
New domestic security agency is not a 'Soviet-era7 creation, Bush says
AP Photo Archive
President Bush meets with bipartisan members of Congress on homeland security in the Cabinet Room of the White House Friday in Washington. Seated with Bush are Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, left, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., right
WASHINGTON (AP) — President George W. Bush left the FBI out of his proposed domestic security department in part because he did not want the new Cabinet-level agency to resemble an “old Soviet-era” creation, his chief of staff said Sunday.
Andrew Card said the FBI is primarily involved in law enforcement, which would not be a responsibility of the pro­posed Department of Homeland Security.
“The FBI does more than worry about terrorist attacks,” Card said on ABC-TV. “And besides, we did not want to create a homeland security department that would look like the old Soviet-era ... min­istry of the interior. This is a homeland security department that will secure the homeland.”
Card said the department
would not gather intelligence about potential terrorist attacks but would serve as a clearing­house, analyzing information from the FBI and the CIA.
In announcing his plan last week, Bush said the depart­ment would exclude the largest intelligence operations, includ­ing the FBI, CIA and the National Security Agency.
Card said the government would have had a better chance of putting terrorism intelli­gence together before Sept. 11 had the new agency been in place.
The department would pro­vide another place “where peo­ple can look at the dots to see how they might be connected,” Card said in a separate inter­view on “Fox News Sunday.” He said it would receive intel­ligence from the Coast Guard, the Immigration and
Naturalization Service, Border Patrol and the Drug Enforcement Agency.
Bush has said the new department would not increase the cost of government. Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge, however, said on CBS- TV that it may cost more ini­tially, but not over the long term.
Ridge also disclosed that Bush’s plan was known only to a handful of White House offi­cials before Bush briefed Cabinet members on it last week.
Those unaware of its details until then included Secretary of State Colin Powell, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and retired Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, chairman of the President’s Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board, he said.
Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman said he thinks the new department should be complemented by a counterter­rorism adviser in the White House who would report directly to the president.
Bush has not indicated who would head the new depart­ment. Lieberman said. Congress, hoping to pass legis­lation creating the department by Sept. 11, presumes Ridge would be its secretary.
BYU-Idaho student dies from injuries
SHAUNA EWELL
SCROLL STAFF
Jeremy Kay Bills, an Elementary Education major from Rigby,
Idaho, died June 3 due to injuries from an automobile accident.
Bills was life-flighted to Eastern Idaho Medical Center in Idaho Falls on May 31, Guin Hand, a junior from Bakersfield, Calif., who was Bills’s fiance, said.
His funeral was held Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Milo LDS 1st Ward Chapel, 12127 North 75 East, Idaho Falls.
Hand said Bills and a friend were driving home from the drive-in movie May 31. They decided to go to a friend’s house and watch another movie. After going to the friend’s house, Bills and his friend chose not to watch the movie and left.
The two left Rigby on Highway 20 in separate cars. Bills was alone in his car driv­ing home to Rigby. On his way home, he saw a horse in the road. He swerved to miss the horse, a tire blew out and the car rolled from corner to cor­ner. Bills was ejected from the back window and lay in the middle of the street, Hand said.
A woman heard the crash and came out to the scene. She called 911 and within three minutes, dispatchers came and Bills was life-flighted to EIMRC, Hand said.
Bills suffered from a broken arm, broken shoulder, col­lapsed lungs and half a dozen ribs were broken.
He also had a broken knee, a broken hip and he suffered from brain damage and inter­nal bleeding. In addition, he had a stroke and was taken in for open heart surgery, which he survived, Hand said.
Monday he went in for another surgery because of swelling of the brain.
Bills’ heart stopped during surgery, and he died June 3 around 1:15 a.m., Hand said.
Hand said she believed that Bills would want people to learn from his experience.
“He never stopped living With the things he learned on his mission. The gospel was deep in his heart. I know he would want people to see the example of his life and would pray each person would try to be themselves and be the best they could be,” she said.
She continued, “Have a giv­ing heart and help them become all they can be. Do the best you can do, trying one step at a time for whatever you go through.”
Bills served in the Cincinnati, Ohio mission from 1998 to October of 2000. He came to Ricks College in win­ter semester of 2001.
www.byui.edu/Scroll
Check out Scroll»Enews, the Scrolls online edition, at www.byui.edu/scroll for campus updates, arts and entertainment infor?nation, local and national news, sports and devotional coverage, student e-mail access and much more.
CHECK OUT THE SCROLL ONLINE ARCHIVES
WWW.ByUI.EDU/SCROLL/ARCHIVES
INDEX__________________
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT .. 9,10
CAMPUS ..................... 5,6
CLASSIFIEDS ................ 9
COMICS...................... 9
NEWS...................... 2,4
OPINION................... 3
RELIGION................... 7,8